The latest jibe: "So General Michael Flynn's life can be totally destroyed while Shadey James Comey can Leak and Lie and make lots of money from a third rate book (that should never have been written). Is that really the way life in America is supposed to work? I don't think so!"

So General Michael Flynn’s life can be totally destroyed while Shadey James Comey can Leak and Lie and make lots of money from a third rate book (that should never have been written). Is that really the way life in America is supposed to work? I don’t think so!

Comey's newly-released book, "A Higher Loyalty," has dominated the political news cycle for more than a week, fuelled by damning assessments of the president's fitness to lead, and potentially legally significant accounts of requests linked to the Russia investigation into Trump's campaign.

On Thursday night the story was given new momentum by the release of Comey's private memos of his two meetings with Trump, which were acquired and published by the Associated Press.

Off the back of the string of insults, Comey has said that he still does not dislike Trump, but feels sorry for him.